Hospital factors associated with higher costs in pediatric blunt abdominal trauma: A national study.

ABSTRACT:

Background/purpose

Our objective was to evaluate hospital factors, including children's hospital status, associated with higher costs for blunt solid organ pediatric abdominal trauma.

Methods

We queried the 2012 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Kid's Inpatient Database (KID) for patients 18 years or younger with low-grade and high-grade blunt abdominal trauma. We calculated total hospital costs and adjusted cost ratios (CR) controlling for patient and hospital-level characteristics.

Results

The 2012 KID included 882 low-grade and 222 high-grade pediatric abdominal trauma patients. Median (interquartile range) per hospitalization costs were similar at children's and nonchildren's hospitals for both low-grade (children's = $6575 [$4333-$10,862], nonchildre

SUBMITTER: Tessler RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7477749 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature